Sunday, June 1, 2014
Planetarium
I think I could've spent all day at the planetarium in Franeker! It was the oldest working planetarium in the world and Eise Eisinga made it in the ceiling of his house. He did this during the 1700s too. All of the planets and orbits are to scale of each other as well. He did finish this amazing project right before the discovery of Uranus, as it was the first planet to be discovered by telescope. It also doesn't account for leap years, so he made instructions so that when he couldn't do it anymore, someone else could. This incredible model has each planet orbiting the Sun and has the planets moons orbit the planet. The model tells the time, date, and what zodiac sign it is. The time however is off by an hour and 40 minutes from day light savings. We got to go upstairs to see each gear of each of the planets orbiting pattern and it was so detailed and complicated, it was amazing. I really wish we could have taken pictures there.
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I found it amazing that this is still working and is still accurate even after all these years, be caused based on what we are reading in "Ingenious Pursuits" clocks during that time would loose a minute or two a day and this wool processor was able to make this "clock" that has lost almost no time after nearly three hundred years.
ReplyDeleteI cant understand how someone with a low level of education and this wasn't even his major focus I life this was just a side hobby can create something so significant that it is still in use hundreds of years after it was created.
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